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CEFC provides finance to boost energy rating for Melbourne hotel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has made a $39 million investment to help boost the energy rating at a hotel being developed by the Pro-invest Group. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation The Holiday Inn Express at Southbank ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Editor's note: The Sustainability Report is pleased to run this comment piece from Cromwell Property Group By Bobby Binning, Head of Property at Cromwell Property Group Bobby Binning, Head of Property at Cromwell Property Group Institutional investors ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
The world's largest cement companies need to more than double their emissions reductions or risk missing the two degree target of the Paris Agreement, according to new CDP analysis. (Image courtesy CDP) CDP has published Building Pressure, and found ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
When companies announce share buybacks, are they returning value to shareholders, propping up earnings per share statistics, or responding to perverse incentives in executive remuneration? Since the US government passed significant corporate tax cuts ...

Cbus Super makes first direct infrastructure investment into renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Cbus Super has invested into Bright Energy Investments (BEI), a portfolio of wind and solar renewable generation assets. Cbus Super and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF) will own 80.1% equity in the portfolio, while Synergy, the West Australian government-owned ...

CEFC investing up to $100m in Lendlease-managed property fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is committing up to $100 million to the Australian Prime Property Fund Commercial (APPF Commercial) with the goal of achieving net zero emissions from the portfolio as early as 2025. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank, has issued an AU$300 million Kangaroo social bond, the first of its kind. The Kangaroo social bond will be used to fund a program that "benefits women entrepreneurs and low-income ...

CEFC provides $90m in financing to Mirvac for residential clean energy initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is committing up to $90 million in debt finance to developer Mirvac to embed clean energy initiatives in the construction of three new masterplanned residential communities. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy ...

HESTA to survey investment managers for workplace gender diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
HESTA is surveying 70 of its Australian and international investment managers about their workplace gender as part of their wider focus on gender diversity through its investment value chain. Debby Blakey, CEO HESTA HESTA, which has $43 billion in assets ...

The Fred Hollows Foundation invests in eye care centre social enterprise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... model right, and the clinical protocols. What we'll do is bring in the investors to support the hard start up costs - building refurbishment, and so on. For us, we looked at what we could achieve with the grant funding alone, as if we were to grant-fund ...